Sentence examples for they were lessened from inspiring English sources

"We agreed on most of the action handed down by him," said Watson, like Robinson a former major leaguer, "and we were in agreement when they were lessened by the appeals process.

But federal prisons don't often parole prisoners, which means that Kilpatrick and Ferguson could both serve the bulk of their sentences (85percentt) unless they are lessened after appeal.

"I think it will be challenged by the European commission because they are lessening competition".

Now, nearly two weeks on and the shock waves are still coming, though like the ripples in a still pond when a stone is thrown in, they are lessening from the centre out.

Output per worker increased, and working hours were lessened.

In lungs from HDC−/− mice, these histopathological changes were lessened.

These effects were lessened by NaHS.

They will be lessened if the president brings together an international coalition behind the effort.

There are real risks that we will become enemies -- there could be clashes between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, the Senkaku Islands, the South China Sea -- but they will be lessened if we give China opportunities for global leadership.

But they'd be lessened considerably if one of the candidates got up at the first debate and said that climate change can't be mourned from the back seat of an Escalade; that the future benefits of expanded health care and more affordable college have a price tag in the here and now; that pain is a precursor to healing; and that it's time to take our medicine.

More than a hundred years ago, Wisconsin progressives launched a movement founded on the opposite principle: If the risks inherent in life in the modern age can be shared and distributed, they can be lessened for all.